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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: colin powel used personal e-mail account [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)50. I'm no happier with Powell placing government communications in "The Cloud"
I can't speak for others, but I'm not sure having a personal server in a garage or upstairs bathroom would be worse than putting government communications onto borrowed server capacity in an unknown country.
Might any special problems exist if that cloud space was in a GRU server farm in Moscow, or Pyongyang?
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Tell you what... some of the worst whoopin's I got as a child were when I pointed at my Sister
cherokeeprogressive
Aug 2015
#57
I'm no happier with Powell placing government communications in "The Cloud"
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#50
So did Jeb Bush, Jindal, Perry, and a lot of other politicians for personal use. Doesn't make it
still_one
Aug 2015
#7
You don't know if info was lost, you don't know if info was leaked nor do you know that Snowden
Purveyor
Aug 2015
#29
Colin Powell was also a member of the most corrupt administration in history
Bjorn Against
Aug 2015
#14
Having also shown horrible judgment wrt that and the Iraq War in the same way as Hillary at least
Bonobo
Aug 2015
#32
Are you trying to argue it is best practice for officials to act as their own information gatekeeper
TheKentuckian
Aug 2015
#49
If you don't see how the push for zero oversight of officials while tolerating and even
TheKentuckian
Aug 2015
#58